Where these things would be useful *today* is for people with digital cable "service". Where certain broadcasts are shown with full resolution available only over HDMI/HDCP, and the resolution is deliberately crippled (or shut off completely) on the analog outputs from the set-top box.
Is this happening on Canadian boxes? It wouldn't surprise me. But I've never heard about it being the case for people in the US. I've also never heard of any Canadian boxes ever having firewire ports enabled and in the US it was also possible to pull HD that way too.
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